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Full name | Nigel Ernest Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Derry, Northern Ireland | 25 June 1964|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Stuart Thompson (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1988–1991 | Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,26 October 2018 |
Nigel Ernest Thompson (born 25 June 1964) is a former Irish first-class cricketer.
Thompson was born at Derry and educated at Limavady High School. [1] Playing club cricket for several club teams in the North West, [1] Thompson made his debut in first-class cricket for Ireland against Scotland at Dumfries in 1988. [2] Thompson made two further appearances in first-class cricket for Ireland,both against Scotland in 1989 and 1991. [2] He scored 79 runs in these matches and took 3 wickets. [3] [4] Thompson also played one-day List A cricket for Ireland on two occasions,the first occasion came in the 1989 NatWest Trophy against Derbyshire at Derby,while the second came against Middlesex in the 1991 NatWest Trophy at Dublin. [5] He scored 26 runs in these two matches and took 2 wickets. [6] [7] Outside of cricket,he works as a manufacturing operator for DuPont. [1] He is the father of the Ireland Test cricketer Stuart Thompson, [1] who featured in Ireland's first ever Test match against Pakistan in 2018.
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